A prententious, annoying and contrived ZOMBIE FILM!

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2003)

I desperately wanted to leave this movie, but had gone to the theater with someone else in their car. Oops.
The director's view of this film is very annoying. It's like "lets have fun with the camera and see how many weird places we can film from, how much we can dolly the camera in every shot, tilt the camera to weird angles, and generally be pretentiously artsy and obtuse."
The horror aspect is amateurish. The last thing I expected was a zombie film, which is basically what this movie is all about. Silly zombies who are *inexplicably* not dead like nearly all the rest of British humanity, and how possess superhuman speed and agility, hiss a lot, and cough up volumes of blood. Ooohhh ... don't get hit by any blood or you'll be a zombie in ... 15 to 20 seconds ... Ooooohhhh ....
This movie just didn't know what it wanted to be when it grew up. I expected something along the lines of 12 Monkeys, and got a bizarre zombie flick instead.
I hold Roger Ebert and James Berardinelli responsible for tricking me with their 3/4 reviews. I should send each of them a bill for half of my $7.50. On their scale I'd give it a 1.5/4, or maybe a 2/4 if I was in a good mood. On my traditional 10 scale, a la IMDb, I give it a 4. Save your money, and your time. See something else.